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Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter

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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to write an algorithms library in Python. Most of the
> functions will accept functions as parameters. For instance, there is
> a function called any:
>
> def any(source, predicate):
>    for item in source:
>        if predicate(item):
>            return true;
>    return false;
>
> There are some things I want to make sure of. 1) I want to make sure
> that source is iterable. 2) More importantly, I want to make sure that
> predicate is callable, accepting a thing, returning a bool.
<snip>
> I am more concerned with the number of parameters.

That can be introspected using the `inspect` module:
http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html#inspect.getargspec

> Finally, can I use decorators to automatically perform these checks,
> instead of hogging the top of all my methods?

Certainly. Although, as others have said, the cost-benefit ratio of
adding code to perform such somewhat-redundant checks might make it
not worth the trouble.

Cheers,
Chris

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Checking Signature of Function Parameter Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 14:20 -0700
  Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 07:31 +1000
    Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 17:20 -0700
      Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 10:27 +1000
  Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 18:40 -0600
  Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-28 18:21 -0700
  Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-29 07:30 +0100
    Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 09:45 -0700
      Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 11:42 -0600
        Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 11:04 -0700
          Re: Checking Signature of Function Parameter Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-29 16:36 -0700

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